Obama supports nuclear industry

I am well aware that there are 'negatives' surrounding both of these candidates, but the one thing that seems to be very common in Obama's campaign, and often overlooked, are his obvious lies.  Now, before Obama supporters get all up in arms, understand that I wanted to like Obama, I really did, until I found out that he is making his voting history out to be as more progressive than it really is.  Check out this link re: Obama's vote in favor of the nuclear industry.

http://thefeldmanblog.com/2008/02/03/bar ack-obama-lies-about-legislative-recordb acked-nuclear-industry-but-claims-he-did nt/

Finally, somebody gets it!  



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I've posted too about Obama being tight with the nuclear power industry. Taylor Marsh has an article about him and the nuclear power industry.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-mar sh/obama-hearts-nuke-giant-e_b_84824.htm l


by Enviro on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 11:08:17 PM EST

Hillary... (none / 0)

Voted for the same nuke bill her supporters attack Obama for supporting.

And by the way, much of the environmental movement has been in support of Nuclear energy for a good 15, almost 20 years now.  It's hilarious to me that there are still dinosaurs in the movement stuck in the 70's that don't.  Never-mind the clueless faux 'green' twits that think their cute little electric car is some sort of a solution to the problems threatening us.


by Brillobreaks on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 11:23:28 PM EST
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Reality check (none / 0)

Like it or not, Obama is a pragmatist.

Now, I'm a solar panel on the roof, biodiesel driving leftie. And I think we're approaching the point where we must look at some historical undesirables (including nuclear) as we go forward. I'm not committed on that (nor have I heard Obama commit on it) but, as everyone likes to say in foreign policy, "all options are on the table." If nothing else, it may become a political reality, if not a economic reality.

by PhilFR on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 11:12:10 PM EST

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According to Progressive Punch, HIllary is much more progressive.

http://progressivepunch.yvod.com/members .jsp?member=HI1&search=selectScore&a mp;chamber=Senate&zip=&x=43& y=9

Also Obama voted for Bush 's 2005 Energy Act, which gave out lots of goodies to the oil companies. Hillary voted against.

Obama is also cozy with the coal industry.


by Enviro on Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 11:35:46 PM EST

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i am uneasy with his coal support, but i just can't imagine a post-oil world without nuclear energy.
 it just doesn't seem realistic
by Lazeriath on Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 12:02:34 AM EST
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check out this link re: Obama's vote in favor of the nuclear industry.

A more honest characterization would be "Obama's compromise with the Senate Republicans to get some stricter regulation passed rather than none, despite the fact that it eventually failed."

Also from the same unhinged blog post:

If Obama has to make stuff up to get elected, one wonders what he will do once in the Oval Office?
Would he make up that some nation has weapons of mass destruction as a pretext to invade it?

I don't know. Why don't we ask Hillary about that one?

Fact: Obama, by his own admission, was a regular cocaine user in college, which means the money he spent buying the drugs went to support vicious cartels that kill innocent men, women and children in Mexico and throughout South America.

Hahahaha. The depths to which Obama's opponents will descend know no bounds.

Fact: Obama managed to not realize he had hundreds of dollars of unpaid parking tickets-an amount that would have gotten most people arrested-until he decided to run for President and then paid them off.

Pathetic. Is this a parody?

Fact: Obama has downplayed his relationship with a shifty Chicago real estate developer who helped get Obama and his wife a nice,new house at the same time he was contributing to Obama's campaign for state-wide office.

Get back to me when you've found something even mildly incriminating.

Fact: Obama makes stuff up about his legislative record because he hardly has one-he either was not present for votes on important issues or, if present,opted not to cast a vote one way or the other.

Fact: Obama had more than 4000 votes in the Illinois State Senate, and only approximately 100 of them were "present" -- many times at the behest of Planned Parenthood.


by RP McMurphy on Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 01:28:27 AM EST

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Fact: We won't achieve energy independence and curb greenhouse gases without nuclear power, so get used to it.


by RP McMurphy on Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 01:32:24 AM EST


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